Posts belonging to Category 'The Next Chapter'

Walking with fear…

Meet Monster.  This week, in dipping my toes a bit back into the Happy Book Challenge over at The Next Chapter Book Club, I took  her for a hike.  Monster, while I adore that she’s somewhat bold and sassy and whimsical, sort of represents my fear…  my fear of failure and being misunderstood, of the [...]

Success is in the eye of the beholder…

It’s been a week FULL of meaning and acceptance and sinking a little further into who I am…  as I honor my Uncle’s passing and the end to his suffering, as I discover closure and the willingness to let go of a broken friendship, as I sit with the unknowns of my own life and [...]

Happiness on a rainy Friday morning…

I haven’t been posting much with the happy book adventurers when it comes to checking in with my sense of happy, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been experiencing it….  My story lately has been around making transitions (my kids are officially home for summer break, which I LOVE, but it’s always been a somewhat [...]

Cultivating Your Well of Precious Resources

We all have a well within us…  it’s filled with energy, love, hope, creativity, and trust, among other things.  We give much of these valuable resources away all the time… to our families, to our work, to our friends, a cup here and a gallon there, often without even realizing it.   A couple of weeks [...]

Part of the work is to stop working….

“Fear less, hope more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours.”
~ Swedish Proverb
I’ve been reminded lately that part of the work in striving to live an authentic and happy life is to let go of this notion that we always have to be trying to make things happen… [...]